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Atlanta, GA, US

Atlanta, GA, US

Atlanta, GA, US

I'm helping The Coca-Cola Company turn 1.9B daily drinkers into the largest directly owned audience in the world by bringing products to market that help our drinkers live better, more uplifting lives through experiences that only Coke Can Do such as The Olympics, FIFA, Coke Studio, and our limited edition products Creations where I focus on building.

Worked closely with Chef David Barzeley to develop the business model, apply lean startup practices and processes to grow the restaurant from an occasional pop-up to an investor backed restaurant with two Michelin Stars.Ongoing focus on applying technology to improve margins and operational efficiency in the restaurant. Sourcing and evaluating new revenue.

Atlanta, GA, US

Building out marketing technology stack and consumer-facing digital platforms.

Atlanta, GA, US

Created a series of user-centered product features that help parents better manage allowances, teach kids about responsibility with chores, and targeted offers that align with our mission, so they can become more finically intelligent and confident in life. I'm also defining the product development process, manage a team of product managers, and help.

Atlanta, GA, US

Using system design principles and experimentation to develop new product features and marketing programs to acquire new users and deepen engagement with existing ones.

San Francisco, California, US

Run a team of Product Managers building the in-service and operational tools for restaurants to define the way their venue shows up on OpenTable, how their table inventory is surfaced to consumers, and develop new inventory types as well as tools to manage the how and when inventory is surfaced on OpenTable. Additionally developed the initial product.

Seattle, WA, US

Work with Y Combinator, Techstars and other accelerators and startups to help them navigate the entrepreneurial landscape and work more effectively with AWS, connect with partners, VCs and other integral members of the startup community.

San Francisco, CA, US

Launched the Ad Cards product for mobile app installs which grew to 70M in revenue in year one, direct response and lead generation. Additionally managed Promoted Trends and Promoted Accounts products.

Recommending & advising startups. Thinking about new mobile and web products.

As a early backer on Kickstarter and in the top 1% of Kickstarter backers, I started Manifest Made with Luke Iseman, who would later go on to head the Hardware program at Y Combinator, with the goal of creating 'AWS for manufacturing' after seeing project after project struggle to bring physical products to market. We shut down our effort after 12 months.

New York, NY, US

Worked with GA to develop a 10 week curriculum in Product Management that leveraged both the current best practices and my extensive experience of real-world examples and working in Product Management. Developed key lessons around MVP design and interviewing for PM roles. Taught for two full 10 week sections and a single weekend intensive designed for MBA.

In charge of product requirements, design and user testing, roadmap development, social media strategy and product launch. Jetpac iPad App launched March 2012 in to the Top 25 in the travel, now featured as 'New & Noteworthy' by Apple.

Co-Founded and secured funding for Dipity. Dipity is the largest and best interactive timeline creation and sharing application in the world. With over 800,000 timelines about people, places and current events. Mange day-to-day business operations and employees, provide on-going product vision, business and product strategy and oversee monetization and.

Brought extensive knowledge of the online video space to develop compelling video publishing, distribution and advertising solutions that enable consumers and web publishers to easily create, manage and monetize their video content.In charge of product strategy, product definition and bringing the 3 founder's product vision to market. Managed the product.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Developed requirements for Yahoo! Podcasts and used an Agile Scrum methodology and remote development team to develop and deploy the site. Worked with VPs and Directors across the Y! product groups to develop a digital marketplace strategy for Yahoo! communities such as Games, Flickr, Photos and Music. Overall strategy and recommendations were presented to.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Developed the product vision, working relationships with consumer electronics companies and managed the product development teams to build the first wave of Interactive Television applications for sports, music, weather and photos. Developed product requirements and deployment schedule and worked across the Y! organization to scope APIs, develop new user.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Developed the business case and product plan for Yahoo!'s consumer facing Interactive TV initiative: Digital Home Services (now Connected Life & Y! Widgets for TV). Secured Executive buy-in, initial group funding and key consumer electronics partnerships for initial product launch.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Developed strategy, functionality, and positioning of Y! FinanceVision product and managed product life cycle.- Defined the product strategy which drove the integration of interactive content from other Yahoo! properties, live streaming video content and content from 3rd party providers. - Drove Yahoo!'s streaming advertising support and integration with.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Developed requirements for and managed the development of the the Yahoo! Display Advertising System including: ad serving, reporting, order entry, inventory management, user tracking and behavioral targeting. Worked with sales and engineering to gather on-going requirements for existing systems as well as develop, test and deploy for new targeting models.